The Joomla! project has been into the Google Summer of code editions 2005, 2006 and 2007. Past week Google Geek herder extraordinaire, Leslie Hawthorn announced this years edition of the Summer Of Code. We will certainly apply to be part of this great program. Like past year we will start the (internal) preparations for this program, and we start with getting together the mentor team.

Mentors who are interested can contact me by sending a personal message in the forum, or post a message in the forum area that has been created for the 2008 edition of the Summer Of Code. What we expect from mentors is that they are able to guide students during the week (2-4 hours per week), have knowledge of the Joomla! 1.5 application and content management framework. Preferable you have some experience with guiding or training students, but this is certainly not a must. If you are interested , but have doubts also do not hesitate to use the Summer Of Code 2008 forum area to post your questions.

More information on this program will be posted as soon as possible. Google has posted a Frequently Asked Questions for everyone who is interested on reading more about this program. If you are interested in past years summer of code you can check out the Summer Of Code team blogs or read the end-term report that holds some specific information about how the program was run past year.

Source: willebil